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LAID DP WUTH ULCERATED FEET. 
ther in our present course, and being now very lame, I 
limped back to Barabarre, and here I was laid up by the 
eating ulcers for many months. They are common in the 
Manyema country, and kill many slaves. If the foot is 
placed on the ground, blood flows, and every night a dis- 
charge of bloody ichor flows, with pain that prevents sleep. 
The wailing of the poor slaves, with ulcers that eat through 
everything, even bone, is one of the night sounds of a slave 
camp. They are probably allied to fever. 
I have been minute, even to triviality, that your Lord- 
ship may have a clear idea of the difficulties of exploration 
in this region. Satisfactory progress could only be made 
in canoes, with men accustomed to the work. I tried hard 
to get other men at Ujiji, but all the traders were eager to 
secure the carriers for themselves, and circulated the report 
that I would go from Manyema to my own country, and 
leave my people to shift lor themselves, like Speke ; they 
knew perfectly that Speke’s men left him first. It was like 
the case of certain Makololo, who left me on the Shire, and 
refused to carry back the medicine to their chief, for which 
they had come. I was afterwards accused by men similar 
to the Ujijans of having abandoned them, though 1 gave 
them cattle even after they deserted me — these being the 
wealth that they value most highly. 
Failing to obtain other men at Ujiji, I might have waited 
in comfort there till those for whom I had written should 
come from the coast, and my great weakness almost de- 
manded that I should do so ; but I had then, as now, an 
Intense desire to finish the work and retire. But on learn- 
ing some parts of the history of the Lewale, or Arab 
Governor, of Unyanyembe, I had grave suspicions that my 
letters would be destroyed. He conducted the first English 
expedition from Zanzibar to Ujiji and Uvira, and back 
again to the coast, and was left unpaid till the Indian 
Government took the matter up and sent him $1000. He 
seems to be naturally an ill-conditioned mortal — a hater of 
the English. When I sent a stock of goods to be placed 
